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Survey of Energy Resources 2007

OTEC Country Notes

Guadeloupe
Experimental studies on two open cycle plants were undertaken by France between the mid-1940s and the mid-1950s in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. The results of these studies formed the basis of a project to build an OTEC plant in Guadeloupe (an Overseas Department of France) in 1958. This onshore 3.5 MW OTEC plant was intended to produce desalinated water but the process proved to be uneconomic at that time and the project was abandoned in 1959.